SC Ventures Graduate Programme (UAE Nationals) 2026

Standard Chartered; Dubai; On-site; AED 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A global banking institution in Dubai is offering a Graduate Programme designed for final-year students and recent graduates. Successful applicants will participate in diverse workstreams, including Design, Marketing, and Finance, with hands-on projects that enhance their skills. Opportunities for career development in a collaborative environment await candidates who can start full-time in July 2026. This role aims to shape future banking leaders in a dynamic and supportive setting.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Flexible working options

Proactive wellbeing support

Continuous learning opportunities

Qualifications

• Able to start full-time employment in July 2026.
• Must have a permanent legal right to work in the UAE.

Responsibilities

• Participate in various workstreams within SC Ventures.
• Collaborate in teams to achieve project outcomes.

Skills

Strong analytical mindset

Excellent communication skills

Collaboration skills

Stakeholder management

Adaptability

Education

Final year student or recent graduate

Job description

About SC Ventures

We believe banking has a critical role to play in society and we can reconnect banking and society by building and scaling breakthrough business models. SC Ventures was established to reinvent banking, as the significant technological disruptions to the industry was impacting its ability to serve clients and customers, in the ways they needed to be served. We’re investing now, to create optionality for the future.

About the Graduate Programme – how you’ll learn and grow

Join a skills‑first organisation where your potential matters more than your background. From day one, you’ll build the skills that matter – through real‑world projects, mentoring, and tailored learning journeys. Our 12‑month graduate programme is designed to accelerate your development and set you up for long‑term success. You’ll benefit from

• Structured learning: Classroom training combined with hands‑on experience
• Global collaboration: Work with diverse teams and experienced leaders
• Skill development: Build technical expertise and professional capabilities

You will be aligned to a workstream within SC Ventures, striving towards achieving our collective desired outcomes and key results. Around you will be a team of experts who will enable the development of your technical, business, and interpersonal skills through real‑world experience and hands‑on training.

Throughout the programme, you’ll meet peers and senior executives from across our global network, creating partnerships and forming relationships that will accelerate your career. We believe that by fostering a highly collaborative and open culture, the whole can be greater than the sum of our parts.

Opportunities for 2026

As part of the assessment process, we’ll help you explore which of the following workstreams best match your strengths and interests:

Design and Innovation

Design, deliver, and scale initiatives that enable employees to become Intrapreneurs, support venture‑building teams, and strengthen our culture of innovation.

Marketing and Communications

Develop business‑centric communications to not only protect the Group’s reputation, brand and services, but also leverage social media and other new age channels to build up our ventures.

Finance

Conduct market research to complement the preparation of financial statements and reports, managing the budget and making projections and forecasts.

You can also indicate areas of interest in advance on your cover letter.

Bring the skills and we’ll help you build your careerWe believe that diverse skills drive innovation, which is why we welcome students from all degree disciplines and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds. You’ll have:

• A strong analytical mindset, comfortable with data analysis and presentation.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
• A naturally curious mindset, and a willingness to develop new skills and embrace new experiences.
• The ability to navigate ambiguity and adapt to evolving priorities.
• You must be a final year student or recent graduate able to start full‑time employment in July 2026.
• Have a permanent legal right to work in the country you’re applying to.

Key Dates

• Assessment Centres: January 2026
• Start Date: July 2026

About Standard Chartered

We’re an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we’ve worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you’re looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can’t wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you’ll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social well‑being.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time‑off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market‑leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first‑aiders and all sorts of self‑help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values‑driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies – everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.

Recruitment Assessments

Some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role you’ve applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressed to an important stage of our recruitment process.

Visit our careers website www.sc.com/careers